Irrelevant sound disrupts order information in free recall as in serial recall

Beaman, C. P. and Jones, Dylan Marc ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8783-5542 1998. Irrelevant sound disrupts order information in free recall as in serial recall. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. Section A: Human Experimental Psychology 51 (3) , pp. 615-636. 10.1080/027249898391558

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Abstract

The claim that the sensitivity of free recall to disruption by irrelevant sound is a function of the extent to which rote rehearsal is employed as a mnemonic strategy was investigated in two experiments. The degree of disruption by irrelevant sound in terms of both item and order information was contrasted under serial and free recall instructions. Irrelevant sound was found to disrupt order and item information equally in serial and free recall tasks (Experiment 1). Contrary to previous reports, an effect of irrelevant sound was also demonstrated on free recall of particularly long lists, and the interaction between list length and retention interval in the irrelevant sound effect was examined (Experiment 2). Generally, the results support the view that irrelevant sound disrupts the use of order cues.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Psychology
Subjects:	B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology R Medicine > RC Internal medicine > RC0321 Neuroscience. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
ISSN:	0272-4987
Last Modified:	21 Oct 2022 09:08
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/35420

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